Catalog: KH0135 (UR1121, AS121)

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Aliases:   UR1121, AS121
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnologische Museum), Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA42538
Provenance:  Pachacamac
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   80 Groups, 281 Cords - (280p, 1s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  3
Benford Match:  0.03652
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  4 (3, 1, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0135 (UR1121, AS121)
Pendant Pendant Sum
Indexed Pendant Sum
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KH0135
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. This is one of several khipus acquired b y the Museum in 1907 with provenance Pachacamac. For a list of them, see KH0110.
  2. By spacing, the khipu is separated into 2 parts. Part 1 consists of 10 subparts, each of which is 7 groups of 3 pendants. Each of the 70 groups has the same color pattern: W, B, W. Part 2 consists of 10 groups of 7 pendants each. The pendants in groups 1 and 10 are B, and those in groups 2-9 are BB.
  3. In part 1, all the pendants in the first 9 subparts are zero-valued (or blank). Similarly, in part 2, all the pendants in the first 9 groups are zero-valued (or blank).
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0135 (UR1121, AS121):

Year Author Title Pages
1975 Ascher, Marcia and Robert Ascher. Quipu as a visible language. Visible Language 9(4):329-356. Text: 344
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 680; 800-803
1981 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. Text: 86; Figures: fig.5.8(vii) (p.86)
2020 Medelius Olcese de Riveros, Y.M., 2021. Dando cuentas: los quipucamayos en las comunidades indígenas y ante la administración colonial. Perú, siglo XVI. Doctoral Thesis. Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevill. Olcese de Riveros, Y.M., 2021. Dando cuentas: los quipucamayos en las comunidades indígenas y ante la administración colonial. Perú, siglo XVI. Doctoral Thesis. Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla Text: 121
2006 Pereyra Sánchez, Hugo. Descripción de los quipus del Museo de Sitio de Pachacamac. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica, Lima. Text: 14
1994 Urton, Gary. New Twist in an Old Yarn: Variation in Knot Directionality in the Inka Khipus. Baessler-Archiv Neue Folge 42:271-305. Text: 296
2003 Urton, Gary. Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records. University of Texas Press, Austin. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/785397 Figures: fig.7.3 (p.163)
2014 Urton, Gary. Quipus de Pachamac. Ministerio de Cultura, Lima. Text: 43
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. Text: 261